Your Life in Their Hands

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This documentary series shows surgery from the viewpoints of both the doctors and the patients. It examines how surgical practices work and what people experience.

informativeobservationaleducationalsoberclinicalpatient-focused

What happens

Your Life in Their Hands is a long-running BBC TV documentary series on the subject of surgery, examining surgical practice from the point of view of both surgeons and patients. Its first run was produced by Bill Duncalf and Mary Adams, consisted of five seasons (1958 to 1964) and was presented by Dr. Charles Fletcher. An early 1970s revival (the first in colour) was presented by Jonathan Miller, and another revival, lasting from 1979 to 1987, was presented by Robert Winston on BBC One. The series was revived again in 1991 for five editions, this time narrated by Andrew Sachs on BBC Two and again in 2004 and 2005 on BBC One with Barbara Flynn as narrator. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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